Either you live in an environment that can hardly support human life, in which case the enemy you contend with is nature itself, or you live in an environment which can support abundant human life, in which case the enemy you contend with is other humans.

All life expands to fit its ecological niche. For this reason, the only time when life hasn’t been fraught with peril is now; this ephemeral moment in our history when our ability to produce food has exploded at the same time that our fertility rates have collapsed.